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Section 480: Practising pleader not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973Central Act · 1973

Repealed. This text is published for reference. It is not in force, and it should not be relied on as current law without checking what replaced it. Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, with effect from 1 July 2024

No pleader who practises in the Court of any Magistrate shall sit as a Magistrate in that Court or in any Court within the local jurisdiction of that Court.

STATE AMENDMENT

Karnataka

Insertion of new section 480A. --After section 480 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974) the following Section shall be inserted, namely:--

"480A. Other powers of Magistrate.--Any Judicial Magistrate or Executive Magistrate shall be entitled to attest, verify or authenticate any document brought before him for the purpose of attestation, verification or authentication, as the case may be, and to affix seals thereon, as may be prescribed by any law for the time being in force.".

[Vide Karnataka Act 35 of 1984, s. 2]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Section480
Marginal notePractising pleader not to sit as Magistrate in certain Courts
JurisdictionCentral
StatusRepealed
Judgments citing it2

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